So today I once more ended up down the beach. Mornington again, too. This time with my grandfather, uncle, Chris and Emily, his sister. It was good to be back there again. The seal was still there, only it had moved down the beach a bit. Luckily, however, it appeared to have departed by the… Read more
Just a random snipet from out of the wild blue yonder…. here.
Yesterday Sket, Chris & I went down to the beach at Mornington. Beautiful day for it, and it was great. The somewhat amusing part was when we arrived and first parked. I went to put the club lock on the steering wheel, and did in fact put it half on… when I remembered that the… Read more
I finally found [again] information on the awesome new camera being prototyped at Stanford. It’s a camera which captures the entire light field inside the lense at one instant, rather than just capturing incident light on a receptor, as do existing cameras. Meaning, it records the direction of the light as well as it’s position.… Read more
I never seem to have too much trouble getting anywhere, but returning always seems to turn into a miniature disaster. The Lake Tahoe trip, for example. The flight back from California was no exception. Let’s recap… As I wrote earlier, I had to twice go into San Francisco Airport to work out the changes to… Read more
Well… sort of. I’ll start packing soon. :D Flight’s all organised, as is my lift to the airport, so hopefully it should go relatively painlessly. It’s going to be a long day, though… 22 hours of planes and airports. Ick. Yesterday my group went out for lunch, which was nice. We went to a British… Read more
So tonight Julius & I went up to Stanford for a bit of a jog. I use “jog” lightly, because there was relatively minimal actual jogging. Although I did better than I expected. I did take my camera, but we didn’t leave until after dark anyway, so while I saw everything, and it was amazing,… Read more